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foljs said:

claire1 said:

3D Touch better have a better alternative if Apple dares remove it

For all those 5 people who use it?

Apple has removed much more widely used stuff (headphone jack for one) and nothing much happened...

I guess I’m one of the five.

I have this toothbrush, and it’s a good toothbrush, but I have two beefs with it.

1. After turning the toothbrush on/off a certain number of times with a particular toothbrush head on it, the toothbrush/app will start hounding you to replace it, even if the toothbrush head is still pristine.

2. The effing app tracks your brushing habits and sends it to SoniCare.  I called customer support with the goal of confirming this and th experience was surreal; they danced around the question in a scripted manner almost to the point of being offensive.  It wasn’t until I started ignoring their deflections and just kept repeating my question over and over that they finally confirmed it.  “It makes brushing better for everyone.”  I don’t care!  I don’t want my habits tracked.  No way to turn it off.

I still use the toothbrush, which is very good, but I deleted the app.  Sonicare and their effing tracking of my brushing habits...

nunzy said:

Magic Leap is an enemy of Apple. Apple will be entering this market soon. In the meantime, we must do whatever we can to destroy Magic Leap.

After watching that video, I suspect we won’t have to.

Nope

It was interesting that there were significant groups out there that implied that Apple would put (on purpose) a 2.9Ghz processor into a computer that would only operate above 2.2Ghz if it was literally in a freezer, stating that clearly their engineers had not addressed thermal management, or that is was a maneuver by Apple to offer poorly integrated hardware simply to make it look like the devices were more powerful than they really were.

The digital key issue makes sense, as it would work during testing by the engineering team, but was somehow rendered invalid upon final launch of the hardware.  This does seem to represent a significant quality-control issue, but nothing fatal, as it could easily be fixed by a software update issued a just few days after the computers delivered.